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Feture Request: Better drive defaults in prefixes, and several other links. #1407

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Ruedii opened this issue Sep 12, 2018 · 1 comment
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Ruedii commented Sep 12, 2018

Feature Request

I confirm:

  • that I haven't found another request for this feature.
  • that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available that
    contain this feature already.

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A quick link to place the game's directory on the D: virtual drivelink under "D:[game directory]" A unified user directory should be placed here as well, linking to $HOME/.share/local/SteamPlayUserFiles/[steamlogin] (or whatever you want to call it.)
A second Quicklink under H: to the user's home directory.

Justification [optional]

This would make accessing the game directory and home directory when doing manual wine commands much easier. This is rather proton specific.

Risks [optional]

Moving the user directory means making a transition copy directory. It also means changing the instructions to purge that directory, and notifying everyone of the new directory structure.

Having a shared user directory for all SteamPlay games may introduce interactions between games, just like on Windows. This can also be a benefit.

Using a separate user directory changes presumes players want to use separate settings/game-play paths for instances of different steam users logging in under the same system username. This may not be a safe assumption.

Making it easier to access to files from the Wine execution environment might allow some users to do stupid stuff. Add a documentation on how to purge the two sets of data directories in order to fix it.

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Hello @Ruedii, this is already being discussed at #231, so I've transferred this to #231 (comment). Closing in favor of the existing issue report.

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